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55,246 resources — aggregated, dated, and cited for further study.
274 resources
Painter of the Renaissance.
The official CDC account of the 40-year U.S. Public Health Service syphilis study.
Aetna's 2000 apology for insuring enslaved people.
Includes the Smith–Carlos 1968 podium protest.
Africans present at the 1565 founding of the oldest U.S. city.
How Rice Coast knowledge built the Lowcountry rice economy.
The Dean of the Harlem Renaissance.
Patron and salon host.
Author of The Color Purple.
How Black music sits at the center of American musical history.
Newton, Seale, and the Panthers' Ten-Point Program.
Biography of the choreographer.
The Havemeyer/Domino sugar empire and slave-grown cane.
Mississippi NAACP veteran who brought SNCC to the Delta.
Brooks Brothers' livery for the enslaved.
Activist-scholar of abolition.
A curated collection of Renaissance poems, essays, and audio.
The free Black Virginian who became a landowner on the Eastern Shore.
Biography of the Queen of Soul.
Poet, novelist, archivist.
Tennis champion and humanitarian.
Black feminist poet and essayist.
Harlem Renaissance sculptor and teacher.
Sculptor and educator.
The uprising linked to the hardening of racial slavery in Virginia.
How money bail disproportionately detains Black and poor defendants before trial.
The 44th U.S. President.
Constitutional orator and congresswoman.
The King of the Blues.
New Orleans as the hub of the domestic slave trade.
The deadliest Election Day massacre in U.S. history (1920).
Biography of the mathematician and astronomer.
Biography of the founder of Motown.
Biography of the Empress of the Blues.
Most-decorated Grammy artist.
Biography of "Lady Day."
11-time NBA champion and civil-rights leader.
The movement's official organization and resources.
First Black senator to serve a full term.
Co-founder of the Black Panther Party.
SNCC strategist of Mississippi voter registration.
The founder of Tuskegee and accommodationist leader.
The enslaved people who built the White House.
Cotton Club bandleader.
The Father of Black History.
How Carter G. Woodson created what became Black History Month.
Biography of the blood-bank pioneer.
Architect of bebop.
Searchable digitized American newspaper pages, 1789–1963.
Contemporary newspaper coverage of the 1921 massacre.
Contemporary newspaper coverage of the 1921 massacre.
Public Enemy frontman.
A primary archive built by veterans of the movement — documents, photos, and accounts.
Poet of "If We Must Die."
Arrested before Rosa Parks; plaintiff in Browder v. Gayle.
Portuguese Angola and Luanda, engine of the West-Central African trade.
Acclaimed Renaissance poet.
The complete 51-episode series; early episodes cover 1400s–1790s.
Overview of mass incarceration and its racial disparities.
The mixed-ancestry sailor killed in the 1770 Boston Massacre.
SCLC leader of the Selma confrontation.
Mentor of the Little Rock Nine.
Heart-surgery pioneer.
Vesey's Charleston conspiracy and its violent aftermath.
Supremes leader and solo star.
Washington''s land-speculation venture that used enslaved workers to dig the swamp''s ditches.
Bebop co-founder.
President of the National Council of Negro Women.
Youngest Renaissance writer.
Biography of the composer and bandleader.
The 1919 Elaine massacre, triggered by Black sharecroppers unionizing.
The woman of African descent who won an early freedom suit.
Biography of the First Lady of Song.
The 2023 national monument preserving three Till sites in Mississippi and Chicago.
Nonprofit confronting mass incarceration, racial injustice, and the legacy of slavery.
Story-quilt artist and author.
Documents on the 1939 Lincoln Memorial concert and Eleanor Roosevelt's DAR resignation.
Jazz Age stage star.
The first legally sanctioned free Black town in the present-day U.S.
First Black statewide officeholder.
The driving minister of the Birmingham campaign.
The NPS site at the Anniston bus-burning location.
CORE's 1961 rides to desegregate interstate travel.
The planned 1800 Richmond-area revolt led by the enslaved blacksmith Gabriel.
The self-taught inventor of the traffic signal and smoke hood.
GEO Group's detention labor record.
The university's reckoning with the GU272 sale.
Biography of the agricultural scientist.
The first written protest against slavery in the English colonies.
Leader of the Cambridge Movement.
Photographer and pioneering Black film director.
Hip-hop turntable pioneer.
The February–July 1960 lunch-counter sit-ins.
The coastal culture with the deepest West African retentions in the U.S.
Entertainer and civil-rights organizer.
NIH resource on the HeLa cell line and the legacy of Henrietta Lacks.
AME bishop and emigrationist.
The still-operating training ground for movement organizers.
The convict-leasing-to-private-prison through-line.
Channel devoted to precolonial African kingdoms — Mali, Songhai, Kongo, Ndongo, Dahomey, Benin, Asante.
Of ~12.5 million embarked, only ~388,000 were shipped directly to North America.
Co-founder of the Black Panther Party.
The journalist and anti-lynching crusader.
The 1803 act of resistance off the Georgia coast.
Biography of the man who integrated MLB.
The first Black heavyweight champion.
The painter and his 60-panel Migration Series.
All 60 panels of the Migration Series, online.
Biography of the novelist and essayist.
The Godfather of Soul and architect of funk.
Co-founder of CORE.
Alabama congressman and labor organizer.
Poet and NAACP leader.
Rapper-entrepreneur.
The neo-expressionist painter.
Author of "Cane."
Georgia's first Black congressman.
Biography of the 1936 Olympic champion.
Whose leaflets launched the Montgomery bus boycott.
Biography of the jazz saxophonist and composer.
MS congressman and historian.
Biography of the entertainer and Resistance agent.
Florida's first Black congressman.
The bank's 2005 disclosure and apology.
The first Black and Asian American VP.
Silhouette installation artist.
Six-time NBA champion.
Biography of the NASA mathematician.
The Central African kingdom, Portuguese contact, and the slave trade.
Biography and poems of the Harlem Renaissance poet.
Maker of "The Miseducation."
Digitized collections documenting 400+ years of the African American experience.
Digitized collections documenting 400+ years of the African American experience.
Architect of rock and roll.
Lloyd's acknowledgment of insuring the slave trade.
The 1775 offer of freedom to enslaved people who joined the British.
Biography of the trumpeter who shaped jazz.
The case that legalized interracial marriage nationwide.
How Lowell's mills depended on slave-grown cotton.
EJI''s report documenting more than 4,000 racial-terror lynchings (1877–1950) used to enforce the racial caste hierarchy.
EJI's landmark report documenting 4,400+ racial-terror lynchings.
The entrepreneur and philanthropist.
Biography of the first Black woman in space.
The first Black woman to charter and run a bank.
Biography of the Queen of Gospel.
The museum's exhibition on Reconstruction through a Black lens.
The West African empire, its gold trade, and Islamic scholarship at Timbuktu.
The definitive interactive archive of 1930s HOLC "redlining" maps.
The founder of the UNIA and Black nationalist leader.
First Black woman PhD in chemistry.
Motown's soul auteur.
The educator and New Deal adviser.
The 1921 destruction of Greenwood — "Black Wall Street."
Biography and poems of the writer.
The King of Pop.
Basketball's greatest.
Perpetual jazz innovator.
Father of Chicago blues.
Biography of "The Greatest."
The museum's exhibition tracing African American music across its history.
The founding and history of the nation's oldest civil-rights organization.
Federal records and research guides spanning slavery to the present.
Records and photographs of the 1963 March on Washington.
The official site of the National Juneteenth Museum under development in Fort Worth, Texas — the first museum dedicated exclusively to preserving Juneteenth history and connecting stories of freedom to present-day liberation.
The NPS program coordinating 800+ verified UGRR sites across the U.S. and Canada.
Official account of freedom-seeker settlements and Underground Railroad ties in the Great Dismal Swamp.
The 1831 Southampton revolt and its consequences.
Novelist of racial passing.
The 1712 armed revolt and its violent suppression.
The Nautilus policies on enslaved people.
The militant forerunner of the NAACP.
The High Priestess of Soul.
The museum's narrative of slavery, emancipation, and the Thirteenth Amendment.
The 1918–mid-1930s flowering of Black art, literature, and music.
How the federal government frames the 1619 Point Comfort arrival.
The national monument and history of Emmett Till's murder and its legacy.
Digitized photographs and documents of the Great Migration and Harlem Renaissance.
Pioneer of Afrofuturism.
The violent 1962 integration of the University of Mississippi.
Biography of the pioneering filmmaker.
The ophthalmologist who invented the Laserphaco Probe.
Biography of the singer, actor, and activist.
The chemist who synthesized medicines from plants.
Communities of self-emancipated people in the swamp.
Biography of the first published African American poet.
The virtuoso behind "Purple Rain."
The Ndongo/Matamba queen who resisted Portuguese conquest for decades.
The legendary producer and composer.
King's closest partner and SCLC successor.
The author of "Invisible Man."
The genius who invented soul.
AME minister and congressman.
Author of Native Son and Black Boy.
SC congressman and orator.
SC congressman and 1868 delegate.
Advocate of armed self-defense; author of "Negroes with Guns."
Delta blues legend.
Founder of the Chicago Defender.
Profiles of every inductee with playlists and footage.
The preeminent American collagist.
The 1923 destruction of a Black Florida town.
Actress and activist.
The King of Soul.
The barrier-breaking entertainer.
The first enslaved Africans in what is now the U.S., and their 1526 revolt.
The world's leading research library on the African diaspora; 10M+ items.
The NPS trail covering the 1965 voting-rights marches.
Founder of the Citizenship Schools.
The 23-time Grand Slam singles champion.
First Black congresswoman.
Biography of the Oscar-winning actor.
Often called the first Black church in America.
Godmother of rock and roll.
The KKK bombing that killed four girls on September 15, 1963.
Enslaved labor that built the South's railroads.
Maps of where captives embarked in Africa and disembarked in the Americas.
Searchable database of 36,000+ documented slave voyages and captive records.
Jazz collections, oral histories, and exhibitions.
Architect of the Motown sound.
A curated history of SNCC with documents, profiles, and timelines.
Songhai's rise under Askia Muhammad and its fall at Tondibi.
Provocative filmmaker.
The Motown prodigy and musical giant.
The largest slave revolt in the British mainland colonies, led by an Angolan named Jemmy.
NYPD stop-and-frisk data showing Black and Latino people overwhelmingly targeted.
Documents and figures of the only successful coup d'état on U.S. soil.
Lehman's start as a cotton brokerage.
Charleston was the entry point for nearly half of captive Africans brought to North America.
Most Africans landing in the Chesapeake came from West-Central Africa and the Bight of Biafra.
The May 1963 youth marches that turned the tide in Birmingham.
The 1873 mass killing that signaled Reconstruction's violent collapse.
A digital archive of the 19th-century Black organizing conventions.
The forced interstate trafficking that tore apart enslaved families.
The roots of Black Power in Malcolm X, SNCC, and 1966.
Why the 1963 march mattered for civil-rights legislation.
A teaching museum of racist artifacts documenting the Jim Crow era and its imagery.
Johns Hopkins''s official account of the 1951 HeLa cells taken without consent.
Modern-jazz pianist-composer.
The site of King's April 4, 1968 assassination.
The authoritative archive of King's papers and movement history.
Sims's experiments, forced sterilization, and Tuskegee in one through-line.
How Rube Foster built the Negro Leagues in 1920.
East Coast hip-hop titan.
How Robert Smalls seized a Confederate steamer and sailed it to freedom.
NPS overview tied to the Reconstruction Era National Historical Park.
England's chartered slaving monopoly that supplied the colonies.
The nine teenagers falsely accused in 1931 Alabama.
Scholarly overview of the 12.5-million-person forced migration.
Overview of the ~175 regiments in which Black men served the Union.
The municipal slave market on Wall Street.
Queen of Rock and Roll.
Biography of the Nobel laureate.
Coastal Georgia political organizer.
Rapper-poet icon.
How enslaved laborers built the Capitol.
Editor of "Fire!!"
The NAACP leader and anti-lynching investigator.
The August 1965 Los Angeles uprising and its aftermath.
The sociologist, NAACP co-founder, and editor of The Crisis.
Foremost Black intellectual; editor of The Crisis.
"The Voice."
National Urban League president.
Biography of the Olympic sprinter.
The 1898 coup that overthrew an elected biracial government.
Biography of the novelist and anthropologist.